Today is Veterans Day in the U.S., and Remembrance Day in the U.K. and much of the British Commonwealth. This holiday, which recognizes the service of all military veterans, was first celebrated as Armistice Day to commemorate the end of World War I at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” […]
This stack is EXACTLY what happens when the pickings get slim over at Edelweiss and NetGalley. The few books I pick up from them on a week like this look so LONELY in the stack that I start combing through friends’ recommendations and get more books. With ‘falling back’ to go back to Standard Time […]
You can tell that winter is coming on by the size – or the lack thereof – of this stack. Not much is published in November, December and even January, so not much shows up on NetGalley and Edelweiss in the months preceding. Except for Spring! books, which have already begun. I always think I’m […]
There’s a book in this stack that I’ve been waiting for, it feels like, forever. That’s Valdemar by Mercedes Lackey. I got back into Valdemar with the publication of the first book in the Founding of Valdemar series, Beyond, and I’ve been itching to learn how things got to be the way they are in […]
It’s beginning to look a lot like the stacks are getting smaller as the holiday season comes upon us. That may seem like a bit of a non-sequitur but it really isn’t. There just isn’t a lot published in November and December because of the holidays, so most of the books in this stack that […]
This week’s stack is short but very, very sweetly anticipated. Court of Wanderers and The Twilight Queen are both second books in series that I hoped really hard would be series but couldn’t be certain until just this week when these two books popped up on NetGalley and Edelweiss. And then there’s What Cannot Be […]
There are two books in this stack that I picked up just for the titles. Or rather, I picked up the first book in the trilogy, That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon, just for the title, so I couldn’t resist getting books 2 and 3, That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted […]
This isn’t really a ‘pretty’ stack. It’s interesting. It’s thought provoking. Or at least I hope so on both counts. But pretty doesn’t seem to be in its wheelhouse AT ALL. Howsomever, titles like Parasol Against the Axe conjure up all sorts of images, don’t they? My curiosity bump itches something fierce over that one. […]
I think the book I’m most looking forward to in this stack is The Missing Witness by Allison Brennan. It’s the 5th book in the Quinn & Costa series and so far they’ve all been terrific. So we’ll see if that streak continues. The one I’m most curious about is At First Spite by Olivia […]
It’s kind of a short stack this week, which is making me think WAY too much of pancakes. Mmmmm, maybe breakfast for dinner would be a good idea… Back to books, always a delicious topic. The Meiji Guillotine Murders is officially the furthest out book I have, not just on this list but AT ALL […]